Thread: sudo wget piped to tar has wrong file owner

greetings,

i'm trying download file , extract in 1 line, extracted file owned me instead of root though i'm using sudo:

code:

sudo sh -c 'wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz -o- | tar -xzf -'

if don't try extract file, owned root expected:

code:

sudo sh -c 'wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz'

any ideas on why happens , how work around it?

thanks!

apparently, can execute single command superuser sudo , not pipeline. example, if there bash script creates file , run script sudo, created file still have user , group ids. if required, can make root owner of file as,

code:

sudo chown root filename

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